- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 11 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to review the operation of disclosure certificates.
Answer
Work is in hand to implementthe provisions of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 which will replace enhanced disclosure certificates for people wanting towork with children and protected adults. Enhanced disclosures for other purposes,standard and basic disclosure certificates will continue to be provided byDisclosure Scotland.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 May 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 7 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish its strategy on fostering, following the previous administration’s consultation on the matter which ended in February 2007.
Answer
A fostering and kinship carestrategy will be published later in 2007.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 May 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 31 May 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-30969 by Ross Finnie on 19 January 2007, what progress has been made in respect of regulations on the transportation of puppies pursuant to the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006.
Answer
The consultation on the draftregulations on the licensing of animal dealers has been completed and the responsesare being considered. As a result of these responses it will be necessary to makea number of changes to the draft regulations before they are presented to Parliament.We anticipate that these regulations will be laid before Parliament in theautumn.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 2 April 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of ministerial expenses, not including staff expenses, was in each year since 1999, broken down by minister.
Answer
The detailed informationrequested is currently being collated and I will write to the member as soon asthe information is available.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 March 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Des McNulty on 29 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many jobs it has been billed for by Scottish Gas under the central heating programme.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:
As at 23 March 2007, Communities Scotland has been invoiced for604 completed jobs from Scottish Gas. This does not represent the number of installationsto date as invoices are not submitted until all associated work such as energy adviceand post installation inspections has been completed.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 March 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Des McNulty on 29 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Scottish Gas will meet its target of 6,000 central heating jobs to be completed under the central heating programme by the end of March 2007.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:
Scottish Gas expects around 5,000 central heating systems tobe installed by the end of March. They expect to have completed the installationof 6,000 central heating systems by around mid-April.
We still expect that the national target of 12,000 installationsby the end of March will be achieved.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 March 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Des McNulty on 29 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many jobs under the free central heating programme have been completed by Scottish Gas.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is as follows:
The latest information provided by Scottish Gas shows 4,017 centralheating systems having been installed as at 18 March.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 March 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 27 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will outline the criteria for measuring response times for 999 calls for ambulances to demonstrate that the criteria are standardised, in light of the recent article in the British Medical Journal, Treating the clock and not the patient: ambulance response times and risk.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-16363 on 18 May 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliamentswebsite, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 March 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 27 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will outline the criteria for determining whether a 999 call made for an ambulance is an emergency to demonstrate that the criteria are standardised, in light of the recent article in the British Medical Journal, Treating the clock and not the patient: ambulance response times and risk.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-16363 on 18 May 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’swebsite the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 March 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 23 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any information from medical and official literature which suggests that the eight-minute response time target for ambulance crews is not evidence-based and may be placing patients and ambulance crews at risk and, if so, what the sources of this information are.
Answer
The eight minute target is an internationallyrecognised target based on medical research which demonstrates that the earlieran emergency ambulance can arrive at the scene of a cardiac arrest, the greaterthe chances are of saving that victims life.
There are numerous medical researchreports which demonstrate that the benefits of a priority based dispatch systemfar outweigh the risks associated with the first come, first served system whichwas in operation previously. References to some of these reports are listed in AnnexC of the NHS Executives Review of Ambulance Performance Standards Final Reportof Steering Group published in July 1996 (ref. no: HMN7:TSHJ 1996 f).
The National Audit Office, the Audit Committee of the Scottish Parliament and the Health Department all supported the 2002 decision of the ScottishAmbulance Service to implement priority based dispatch.
